First Speak [SPXT]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Place & SpeakersFirst Speak is spoken by a population of around 200,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About First Speak
Proto-language (in building) of my main conlang, perhaps of an entire family of conlangs in the future.
Sample of First Speak[view] Terewi esè xina aputo akawìsexata, wìseiso opa wanesuko xesotèro toso xapàna? Wìseiso wìse wèti totsi la, esè si ekata... la aputo
Who cares if the stars are dead? As long as we can still see them, that means they're real...to us.[view all texts]
Who cares if the stars are dead? As long as we can still see them, that means they're real...to us.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeOmbrian
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First Speak
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[view] About OmbrianThe languages of the Ombrian people, spoken on the Main Continent since c. 5000 before the present and on the Atoll region since the 7th century before the present
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | x | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ɬ | ||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||||
Open | ä ä: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for First Speak. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
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Mm/m/ | Pp/p/ | Ff/f/ | Nn/n/ | Tt/t/ | Ss/s/ | Rr/ɾ/ | Ll/l/ | HL hl/ɬ/ |
Yy/j/ | Ii/i/ | Ìì/i:/ | Ee/e/ | Èè/e:/ | Kk/k/ | Xx/x/ | Ww/w/ | Uu/u/ |
Ùù/u:/ | Oo/o/ | Òò/o:/ | Aa/ä/ | Àà/ä:/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | TL tl/t͡ɬ/ | ||
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